#writing

"He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish."

"If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit."

"People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life."

"... a good idea always attracts other good ideas."

"I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read."This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons."

"If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad."

"A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise."

"This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be."

"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."(Letter 16, 1657)"

"You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence."

"If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest."

"The desire to write grows with writing."

"I’m up for the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award this year. I’m tremendously proud, considering Caesar is the guy who burned down the Library of Alexandria."

"She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved."

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others."

"I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, Giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy: I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like."

"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work."

"Cynics are simply thwarted romantics."

"How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an ocean of you? Falling or flying towards you, losing or finding myself in you and beauty was never the word to catch all that you are. For now I know the means of the infinite and it all starts and ends with you."